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Technology Short Take 108

Welcome to Technology Short Take #108! This will be the last Technology Short Take of 2018, so here’s hoping I can provide something useful for you. Enjoy!

Networking

Maish Saidel-Keesing has a 5-part series on replacing the AWS ELB. This is an older post (from August) that I’ve had in my backlog for a while, and I’m just now getting around to reading the series. There’s some really good information in here. I won’t link to all five, but rather just point you at the introductory post (and Maish has done a great job—better than a lot of bloggers—making the entire series easily accessible).

This is a slightly older article by Mitch Beaumont that I’ve had sitting in the hopper for a while. When I first read it, I was still (relatively) early in my Kubernetes journey, and a fair amount of what he discussed wasn’t quite “clicking” in my brain (no fault of his). Now, it makes a lot more sense to me. Time and experience can make quite a difference sometimes!

Weijuan Shi Davis collected some resources related to Windows containers on Kubernetes in this post-KubeCon post.

Operating Systems/Applications

In part 5 of a series on Kubernetes metrics, Bob Cotton discusses etcd metrics. (This post reminds me that I need to write up the procedure I followed to get the Prometheus Operator scraping metrics from a TLS-secured etcd cluster bootstrapped using kubeadm.)

Career/Soft Skills

Via the AWS News blog, Michael Wittig shares some information on how to become an AWS expert. While the article is specific to AWS (a useful skill to have), the tips that he shares can be equally applicable in learning other technology areas as well.

Emily Ludolph shares some ideas for leaders. While this originates in the “creative” industry, the ideas shared here are, I think, equally applicable in other industries.

That’s it for the Technology Short Take series in 2018! Look for the next one in early 2019. Until then (or even after then), feel free to hit me on Twitter if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for improvement. Have a great remainder of 2018, folks!